Monitoring Vegetation Biomass in Continental Antarctica: A Comparison of Hyper- and Multispectral Imagery

• Main Author: White, Megan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: The University of Edinburgh 2020
• Subjects: Remote Sensing, Sentinel-2, Biological Soil Crusts, Antarctica, Supervised Classification, Random Forest, Spectral Unmixing; Antarctic; The Antarctic; The Sentinel; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.7488/era/920; https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/37639

In the last few decades Antarctica has come under intense scrutiny as an area that could potentially provide insight into climate change as an early warning system for the rest of the world. This is due in part to the vegetation that inhabits the area which includes populations of lichen, algae and...